| 继承人 | jì chéng rén | heir / successor |   |
| 子嗣 | zǐ sì | son / heir | |
| 后嗣 | hòu sì | heir / descendant / posterity | |
| 嗣子 | sì zǐ | heir / adopted son | |
| 储 |  chǔ | (bound form) to store / to save / to have in reserve / heir / Taiwan pr. [chu2] | |
| 胤 | yìn | descendant / heir / offspring / posterity / to inherit | |
| 继嗣 | jì sì | to continue / to continue a family line / posterity / heir | |
| 世子 | shì zǐ | crown prince / heir of a noble house | |
| 王储 | wáng chǔ | crown prince / heir to throne | |
| 储君 | chǔ jūn | heir apparent to a throne | |
| 封妻荫子 | fēng qī yìn zǐ | to bestow a title on the wife of a deserving official and make his son heir to his titles | |
| 出继 | chū jì | to become adopted as heir | |
| 法兰西斯·斐迪南 | | Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria (1863-1914), heir to the Hapsburg throne, whose assassination in Sarajevo led to World War I | |
| 法兰西斯・斐迪南 | Fǎ lán xī sī · Fěi dí nán | Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria (1863-1914), heir to the Hapsburg throne, whose assassination in Sarajevo led to World War I | |
| 法兰西斯·斐迪南 | Fǎ lán xī sī · Fěi dí nán | Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria (1863-1914), heir to the Hapsburg throne, whose assassination in Sarajevo led to World War I | |
| 单传 | dān chuán | to have only one heir in a generation (of a family, clan etc) / to be learned from only one master (of a skill, art etc) | |
